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Schoolhouse Rock: I'm Gonna Send your Vote to College (Electoral College that is)
Schoolhouse Rock (through YouTube) ^ | 1970's | George R. Newall, Bob Dorough

Posted on 08/21/2019 7:09:33 AM PDT by GOP Congress

This video was posted by YouTube user "A Life of Thoughts."

I'm Gonna Send Your Vote to College

This video on the Electoral college for kids is probably considered just as racist as Sambo restaurant ads by now. So rub your Democrat frenemies in the genius of this installment from Schoolhouse Rock.


TOPICS: Humor
KEYWORDS: college; democrats; electoral; electoralcollege; faithlesselectors; nationalpopularvote; npv; schoolhouse

1 posted on 08/21/2019 7:09:33 AM PDT by GOP Congress
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To: KC_Lion

Ping.


2 posted on 08/21/2019 7:11:07 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: GOP Congress

they will have to rewrite that one soon, with all the states pledging to give electoral votes to the winner of the popular vote... states be damned.


3 posted on 08/21/2019 7:21:39 AM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
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To: GOP Congress

This one is from the 1990’s not the 1970’s.


4 posted on 08/21/2019 7:22:12 AM PDT by HapaxLegamenon
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To: GOP Congress

This one is from the 1990’s not the 1970’s.


5 posted on 08/21/2019 7:26:04 AM PDT by HapaxLegamenon
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To: GOP Congress

Two white men candidates? Women cheer leaders?

Oh the left will have a field day with this video.

I can’t wait till trump wins the popular vote and 11 leftist states who recently changed their laws to give their votes to the winner of nationwide popular vote will turn their votes over to trump.

Schadenfreude


6 posted on 08/21/2019 7:33:33 AM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Vaquero

The Simpsons did a funny parody of Schoolhouse Rock, even got Jack Sheldon to sing it.

“I’m an Amendment to Be”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSANTRnEBgg


7 posted on 08/21/2019 7:35:04 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

I absolutely remember it. My guilty pleasure is watching the first 12 years of the Simpsons. After that they went too far to the left.


8 posted on 08/21/2019 7:38:04 AM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Vaquero
After that they went too far to the left.

"'Cause those liberal freaks go too faaaaar!"

9 posted on 08/21/2019 7:39:05 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

Their best writer was John Schwartzwelder. He was their right/libertarian writer. He is long gone.


10 posted on 08/21/2019 7:43:10 AM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: GOP Congress
I don't see the Sambo aspect.

It does a very poor job explaining WHY the Founding Fathers wanted to us the EC; to ensure smaller states weren't overwhelmed by larger states.

I have a problem with this snarky line:

'Even if they win by a hair it's still considered fair'.

It sounds to me the writer is mocking the EC.

11 posted on 08/21/2019 7:45:16 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: Vaquero

They probably won’t show the one about the “Great American Melting Pot” anymore, since now it’s a “Tossed Salad”.


12 posted on 08/21/2019 7:49:40 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: HapaxLegamenon

Released in 2002, which surprises me. The animation style and overall lack of aggressive wokeness make it seem much older. Apparently it was made in response to the 2000 election.


13 posted on 08/21/2019 7:52:36 AM PDT by Yardstick
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To: Yardstick
It is woke.

It contains this line:

'Even if they win by a hair it's still considered fair'.

The person who wrote this was mocking the EC or possibly had the Bush/Gore election in mind.

14 posted on 08/21/2019 7:57:06 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

Well the Democrats certainly would act like they have a “mandate” if they won by a hair.


15 posted on 08/21/2019 7:58:05 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Vaquero

It won’t take effect until there are at least 270 electoral votes accounted for in the group of states.


16 posted on 08/21/2019 7:59:08 AM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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To: Vaquero

John Swartzwelder: ‘’They can kill the Kennedys. Why can’t they make a cup of coffee that tastes good?’’


17 posted on 08/21/2019 7:59:56 AM PDT by newfreep ("INSIDE EVERY PROGRESSIVE IS A TOTALITARIAN SCREAMING TO GET OUT" - DAVID HOROWITZ)
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To: yesthatjallen

Maybe that’s what they were getting at. Or maybe they were referring to how the electoral college tends to create large margins of victory in the electoral vote even when the (so-called) popular vote margin is small, which I’ve always understood to be one of its virtues.


18 posted on 08/21/2019 9:36:52 AM PDT by Yardstick
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